AI appears to be seeping into each aspect of society today, however that might not be the case in communities the place English isn’t the dominant language. Spotify is working to appropriate that by providing a Spanish-speaking version of its DJ feature.
Spotify introduced the brand new Spanish talking function for its DJ mode often known as Xavier or “X” on Wednesday. The brand new DJ is called Livi and Spotify has even given its new DJ a backstory describing her as a “Senior Music Editor at Spotify based mostly out of Mexico Metropolis” and “a music professional who has spent her whole profession within the music business.
It’s principally a cruder model of how Jon Hamm can digitally assign backgrounds and views to “cookies” in Black Mirror’s Christmas episode. Does this imply X and Livia will begin screaming if we play Wizzard’s “I Want It Might Be Christmas On a regular basis” on an infinite loop?
DJ is an AI generated listing of curated songs based mostly on a Spotify person’s listening historical past. The DJ function additionally contains an AI voice introducing and commenting on among the songs it picks identical to a radio DJ would besides this DJ performs songs you really need to hear. The music streaming service launched DJ last year using OpenAI. Six months later, Spotify expanded DJ’s reach to 50 countries however solely in English.
Spotify’s DJ can be beginning to get some competitors. YouTube Music simply introduced its personal AI-generated conversational DJ radio generator for choose customers. In the event that they don’t name him “YouGene,” then they’re lacking out on pure pun gold.
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